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Another of my photos has been used.

Tony Lockhart

Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
I received an email from Denis Welch Motorsport last week asking if they could use a photo of mine in an email flyer advertising their exhausts. Of course! I didn't ask for any payment, just a mention of my name somewhere. I think they've used it quite well!

 
Great pic, but I'm kind of curious as to how actual fire coming out the back somewhere I assume fairly near the petrol tank is a particularly good thing when advertising! ;-)
 
Tony,

Why didn't you ask for some payment - even if it's a peppercorn amount e.g. £20? If it's free, then it has no worth Photo credits don't pay bills, buy you hi-fi or cameras.

I was emailed 48 hours ago asking if a high end Italian sportscar magazine in the USA could use one of my photos from the Monaco Historic GP last year. I said that the editor or photo editor from the magazine is most welcome to contact me to arrange a suitable payment for a one off print use. If they don't pay, they don't get to use my photos.

Charlie
 
Nice pic Doc!

I hold the record. I posted a pic of my newly boarded out and totally clear loft to Flickr. A chap doing loft conversions wanted to use it. I let him, for £100.

Small sum.. but I'm a socialist.... :)

Mull
 
Tony,

Why didn't you ask for some payment - even if it's a peppercorn amount e.g. £20? If it's free, then it has no worth Photo credits don't pay bills, buy you hi-fi or cameras.

I was emailed 48 hours ago asking if a high end Italian sportscar magazine in the USA could use one of my photos from the Monaco Historic GP last year. I said that the editor or photo editor from the magazine is most welcome to contact me to arrange a suitable payment for a one off print use. If they don't pay, they don't get to use my photos.

Charlie

What Charlie said.

Don't give your work away for free. I'll bet the editor of the mag isn't working for free.
 
It wasn't for a mag, it was for a one off email flyer. From experience these images only fetch a few quid, and I'd rather give an old image away. I'll be going to at least one meeting that they attend this year, and for the sake of ten or twenty quid, I'll be chatting with them in the pit or paddock.

I took the photos for my own enjoyment, not to make money.
 
That's excellent news - congrats Tony! It's a cracking image, not surprised they wanted to use it. Nice one :)

In terms of payment, I am in agreement with Tony. I wouldn't expect to get paid. My images have been used in various places all without payment. The only times I have made any money through photography is paid family photo shoots and also selling a few prints here and there.

Congrats again Tony!

Lefty
 
A friend of mine discovered that the local conservative party had used one of his images, without permission, on their campaign leaflet. This friend could not be mistaken for someone who shares his politics with Mrs May's team, so he suggested that they made a substantial donation to a charity of his choice - an order of magnitude greater than it would have cost them to buy the image from a stock library!
 
It wasn't for a mag, it was for a one off email flyer. From experience these images only fetch a few quid, and I'd rather give an old image away. I'll be going to at least one meeting that they attend this year, and for the sake of ten or twenty quid, I'll be chatting with them in the pit or paddock.

I took the photos for my own enjoyment, not to make money.

This is true and I totally understand your ptv. But the other side to it is that if people can get photos for free from amateurs, then professionals lose business and the world is poorer as a result.

People simply don't value things they get for free.

Oh, and congratulations btw, it's an excellent shot!
 
Pictures like that rarely attract much cash. I've sold a few images over the last twelve years, and back in 2005 that image might have fetched $300+ through my agency. Recently some of my images have sold for less than a dollar through an agency. Microsales, I think they're called. Rapid turnover images on quickfire websites will never pay much.

If a professional suffers because of my actions, he's not much of a businessman. He should've been at the top of their list of image suppliers already. I'm sure no professional photographer pays more than he needs to when booking flights. That's killed my industry!

If I get to sit in a lightweight E-Type in May, I'll be more than thankful.
 
If a professional suffers because of my actions, he's not much of a businessman. He should've been at the top of their list of image suppliers already.

It's the drip drip effect, where photography ceases to have any value if everybody gives their services away for nothing. I'd happily work for free so long as I could whatever I need for nothing too.

My vote is in the hat for a free society.
 
My vote is in the hat for a free society.

That would be great. You could then do what you found interesting rather than what pays the bills :)

Only problem is, everyone would want to do the interesting jobs and no one would want to do the boring jobs!

Lefty
 
I'm afraid that since images from digital cameras became useable, the days of many pro snappers were numbered. Should we re-introduce the Net book price agreement just to allow bookshop owners to have an easy life? Naaa.
 


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